plumiBreak-even analysis: OCR A‑Level Business questions
Every OCR A-Level Business exam question on Break-even analysis, 2021–2025, with its mark scheme and examiner’s report.
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All 9 questions on Break-even analysis, as a list
- June 2025, AS Paper 1, Q21 (2 marks): Refer to Fig. 1. It is estimated that KCOM needs 84 360 customers to break even. Calculate KCOM’s margin of safety for 2023. Answer [2]
- June 2025, Paper 1, Q15 (1 mark): Hiro sells doughnuts. The ingredients for a box of doughnuts cost 65p. Hiro sells each box of doughnuts for £3.50. Fixed costs for the year are estimated to be
- June 2024, AS Paper 2, Q5 (3 marks): A tomato farmer has monthly fixed costs of £500. The monthly break-even level of output for the farm is 2000 kg of tomatoes, at a selling price of £0.60 per kg.
- June 2024, Paper 2, Q7 (4 marks): Heidi is a self-employed financial adviser. Last month her fixed costs were £4250, and she had 30 clients. Heidi estimates that each client makes a contribution
- June 2023, AS Paper 1, Q18 (2 marks): ‘Health club members have the price of their membership fixed when they join’ (line 12). Explain one possible impact on Cottingham Parks’ break-even point of th
- June 2023, Paper 1, Q3 (1 mark): Canta Ltd makes drum kits. The company has fixed costs of £18 000 per year. The average selling price for a drum kit is £690. The variable cost to make one drum
- June 2022, AS Paper 2, Q6 (4 marks): A business has the following data from the past two years. 2021 2020 Price per unit £2.50 £2.40 Variable costs per unit £1.70 £1.55 Total fixed costs £5000 £467
- June 2022, Paper 2, Q3 (2 marks): State what is meant by a ‘stepped fixed cost’. [2]
- June 2022, Paper 3, Q6(a)(ii) (2 marks): The owner of TF believes that Subway will only pay him 90% of his normal average selling price per kg of tomatoes. Calculate the contribution at this price. [2]
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